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**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-imap-input-unable-to-parse-html-email/68951 "2016-12-13T23:41:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@Geezer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geezer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-imap-input-unable-to-parse-html-email/68951/1 "2016-12-13T23:41:55Z")
Hello,
I'm trying to use the logstash-input-imap plugin to parse email. I can read plain text emails OK but with an HTML email I get a page of HTML code as the message, rather than the text.
I have set the content\_type to text/html - am I missing something here? This is my input:
input {
imap {
host =\> "[server.domain.com](http://server.domain.com)"
password =\> "\***_"
user =\> "_**"
tags =\> "some\_tag"
check\_interval =\> 30 # Specified in seconds
fetch\_count =\> 100
type =\> "mail"
content\_type =\> "text/html"
}
}
Thank you
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**Author:**  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-imap-input-unable-to-parse-html-email/68951/2 "2016-12-18T16:13:20Z")
The imap filter doesn't parse HTML.
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**Author:**  [@Geezer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geezer)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-imap-input-unable-to-parse-html-email/68951/3 "2016-12-19T15:46:15Z")
Ah, that would explain it thank you
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-imap-input-unable-to-parse-html-email/68951/4 "2017-01-16T15:46:24Z")
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